Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

A federal annual DOT inspection performed within the last 90 days satisfies the California BIT inspection. I would stop at a T/A or Petro and get one done on your way back to Cali and fax it in to the CHP then call the next day to see if they got it and if they squared up your BIT requirement.

Every once in a while the CHP rolls up in one of my company's terminals in California wanting to look at maintenance records, specifically BIT. They are OK with annual DOT inspections performed within the last 90 days.

 

I knew who you were quoting, or I would have had to delete it...

 

Don't let up on your aggressiveness on rates after Christmas or even New Year's doubleyellow. Now every year things can be different but the past couple of years van rates were solid up until mid Jan then things went to the crapper staying that way until late Feb or early March when they got hot again all the way into July. Since I said that this year may be different who knows lol. But, if you don't let up on pushing aggressively like that you will know when the markets are no longer supporting your demands. That's how you KNOW what a market is doing instead of guessing and getting lucky or just always scratching your head wondering. Keep your ledgers filled out and go back to refer to that info over time. That knowledge is your best asset - drivers not keeping a ledger and running off memory are practically blind to trends. Or only have vague ideas. Memories get fuzzy with time. I've seen it before someone remembered "this time last year" in a certain way then because of curiosity a check on my numbers from the past revealed something quite different from that memory.

 

Not much different when you're slamming doors. A couple hours here, couple more hours there, next thing you know it's a new day.

 

Have to be picky about what you're loading.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ3Bt6x65qo

 

Is this your compliance review your getting done?

 

You Canadians like to ruin everything. Just have some beer and watch the movie.